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Taken during the outage of 2026-09-27, when the protocol leaked into the seat's contract: to hold mesh-broker a module had to provide amqp, so the module that will carry the bus could not hold the seat that names the bus, while the module being retired could. Supersedes 0127. Modules depend on the seat and reach the bus through the sdk; no manifest provides or requires amqp; the old broker's module and the two modules that required it leave the catalogue; the AMQP transport is deleted once every node reports on the new bus. Design 28 step 5 rewritten under it: the seat handover becomes its own task and is built first, because the seat the control plane dereferences cannot be empty in between — that emptiness was the outage. The cost note now carries what was measured rather than what was assumed. 0128 and 0130 extended 0127; each now rests on 0131 with a dated note and changes nothing it decided. Every other citation of 0127 names its replacement. records.py still fails on 0120/0112, which predates this branch.
03-DESIGN
The authoritative specification. Implementation is built against what is written here.
Two layers
| Folder | What it is |
|---|---|
00-as-is/ |
The mesh that exists today. Shipped behaviour, described as it is — including behaviour nobody would choose again. |
01-to-be/ |
The mesh being built toward. Every statement traceable to a record in 02-DECISIONS/. |
They are never mixed. A statement about the future does not belong in an as-is document, and an as-is document is never edited to describe an intention.
When a to-be design ships, it does not move. Its as-is counterpart is written or updated,
the to-be document's status becomes implemented, and both stand — one describing what runs,
the other recording what was intended. Deleting the intention loses the reasoning, which is
the expensive half.
Frontmatter
Every design document (not the READMEs) carries:
---
layer: as-is | to-be
status: designed | in-progress | implemented | abandoned
code: [] # owning code repo(s), from 00-META/repos.md
updated: YYYY-MM-DD # date of the last status change, not of text edits
decisions: [] # 02-DECISIONS/ records this document rests on
---
For an as-is document, status: implemented is the normal state — it describes something that
runs — and code: names where that implementation lives.
Status changes when implementation state changes, never because design text was edited. An
implemented claim must be defensible from the owning repository's main branch, not from
intent. If it cannot be checked, it is in-progress.
Cross-cutting views are generated from this frontmatter by the hq-status skill and never
written to disk.
What belongs here
Functional analysis, architectural description, and specification — prose and diagrams
only, no code. A manifest field may be named; a manifest may not be pasted. A document
enters the to-be layer only after the decision behind it is recorded in 02-DECISIONS/
and the research that produced it is closed.
Subfolders are encouraged where a layer grows enough to need them.